Four Companies to Form North America's Third-Largest Specialty Chemicals Company

摘要

COLUMBUS,Ohio-Borden Chemical,Inc.,Columbus,Ohio,and Resolution Performance Products LLC(RPP),Houston,jointly announced plans to merge,together with Resolution Specialty Materials LLC(RSM),Carpentersville,111.,to form the world's largest producer of thermosetting resins.All three companies are owned by affiliates of the private investment firm Apollo Management,L.P.The new company will be named Hexion Specialty Chemicals,Inc.